5-Week Practitioner Course
Advanced Frameworks in
Trans Affirming Therapy
Get clear, actionable frameworks to guide you in confidently supporting trans clients through challenges and towards authenticity, connection, and wellbeing.
Perfect for mental health professionals ready to deepen their expertise in trans-affirming care.
5 Weeks | ONLINE | May 27 - July 1 2025
FLEXIBLE
Attend Live Online, or Watch Replays
PRACTICAL
Effective Frameworks You Can Easily Apply
GROUNDBREAKING
In-Depth, Nuanced, Clarifying Insights
Ready to move beyond basic inclusion to create profound positive change for your trans clients?
A lot of guidance and training online covers very foundational principles. This training goes well beyond that, because trans people deserve more than just basic inclusion and respect.
It can be difficult to find mentorship, training and literature that will equip you to do profoundly effective work with your trans clients, and to feel confident in your knowledge and skills as you do it.
You will feel more confident, knowledgeable, and effective in your practice, and will see your clients experiencing meaningful change and tangible movement towards greater personal ease.
Course Structure
5 Week Intensive
Advanced Video Training
- Released Weekly
- Self-paced
- Packed with insights, frameworks and actionable strategies.
Q&A calls
- Weekly (choose one of two times)
- Attend live or watch/listen to the replay
- Pre-submit questions or ask live
- Discuss the content and apply the content to your cases.
12 Weeks of Access & Support
- Specialist consultatio: A-synchronous personal support from Ari, any week day.
- Community: 24/7 online forum of trusted professionals
- Resources: 12 weeks access to training modules and Q&A recordings, plus a library of resources, visual frameworks, templates and recordings
Course Outline
This groundbreaking course will provide you with frameworks, concepts and strategies formed over a decade of personal experience, clinical practice and research.
They are each roughly 90-minute, broken up into easy to consume shorter videos.
Week 1: Released May 27
Supporting Gender Questioning Clients
Having a clear model for gender identity formation will allow you to support clients in the earlier stages of the gender awareness and affirmation process.
- How do we help clients who are asking, "what am I?"
- How necessary is identity language?
- What are the common stuck points and how do you help clients continue to grow and heal.
Week 2: Released June 3
Working With and Alleviating Dysphoria
Understand the cause of gender dysphoria and our 3-part framework for dysphoria relief, so that you can:
- Support clients to reduce the factors in their life leading to dysphoria distress
- Help clients understand their inner process and triggers
- Explore ways to reduce dysphoria in the moment
- Work towards meaningful alleviation
Week 3: Released May 10
Emotional Safety and Relationship to Living
- How do we support clients in a harmful political and social context?
- What are the real and under-estimated risks to safety that no one is talking about?
- How can we respond to clients when they experience direct transphobia.
- Why do so many trans people struggle to envision a future for themselves, and say they "don't feel like a real person"?
In this module you will learn what to listen for, and the most effective interventions, to increase safety from survival to wellbeing.
Develop a map of risk and resilience that you can track with each client to know what aspects of their life cause them real harm and what aspects are missing that will increase their resilience in the face of challenges.
Week 4: Released May 17
The Real Purpose of Gender Affirmation
Support clients as they make choices for their own greater wellbeing and towards authentic connection with themselves and others.
Understand the concept of 'gender affirmation' in a new way that will allow you to offer meaningful reflections and support to your clients, wither they are thinking about transitioning or years down the track.
Week 5: Released May 24
Healing Internalised Transphobia
Bringing the course concepts together, we will talk about internalised transphobic and how to support clients towards 'trans healing'.
Two Course Components
1. Self-Paced Lectures
Core Content | Pre-Recorded| 5 Core Lectures
Released on: May 27th, June 3rd, 10th, 17th, and 24th
Weekly Time Commitment: Each module is 60-90 minutes
Access Duration: Available to watch for 12 weeks
See Course Outline2. Q&A Calls
Optional Extra Support | Live and Recorded | 5 Weeks
Times / Timezones:
Australian Eastern
Tuesdays at 10-11.30am or 7.30-9pm, from June 3rd
USA Timezones
Mondays at 5-6.30pm PT | 8-9.30pm ET, from June 2nd
Flexible - On Your Schedule
Weekly, Self-Study Video Modules
- Pre-recorded
- Released weekly (May 6th - June 3rd)
- Broken into short, easy-to-consume videos
- Watch or listen via desktop or app
All Your Questions Answered
- Sumit questions any day of the week for a-synchronous, same day reponses
- Pre-submit questions for responses during live, recorded Q&A calls.
- Watch or listen via desktop or app
Online Network of Trusted Professionals
Get support and guidance, share resources, submit Q&A questions if you cannot attend the discussion live, any day of the week.
Pricing
Meet Your Trainer
Hi, I'm Ari Heart (they/them).
I am a psychotherapist, educator, parent, trans non-binary person, and co-founder of Trans Wellbeing.
I have been supporting trans people and their families to navigate the various stages of their journeys for many years.
When I began working with trans clients, I quickly realised that lived experience wasn’t enough to guide me in working with other trans and gender diverse people.
When sitting with a client in tears about their struggle with body dysphoria, I could offer presence and empathy, but I felt ill-equipped to help in other ways.
I felt sure that there must be more to know, and I just could not find the information I wanted. The existing guidelines and standards of care didn’t offer the granularity, nuance, theoretical underpinning, or the strategies I wanted. Mostly, they re-iterated similar principles about inclusion and respect – something I felt was setting the bar too low for where I wanted to take my practice and how strongly I wanted to help my clients.
It took me many years and hundreds of clients before I started to develop the frameworks I use today to help my clients experience transformative healing in their relationship to their gender and body, and often within just a few sessions.
My personal experience as a non-binary trans person informs the depth of care I bring to this work, but it is the many thousands of hours of conversations with trans people and their families that has built much of the purpose and content of our programs.
I am grateful to all the people I have worked with, who have taught me many things; not least the imperative and courage of authenticity and connection.